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She began to smile; and at once, to repair his folly, Leon told her that he had spent his morning in looking for her in all the hotels in the town one after the other.
Madame Bovary turned away her head that he might not see the irrepressible smile she felt rising to her lips.
He came towards Leon, and, with that smile of wheedling benignity assumed by ecclesiastics when they question children—"The gentleman, no doubt, does not belong to these parts?
He knelt on the ground before her, and with both elbows on her knees looked at her with a smile, his face upturned.
Every smile hid a yawn of boredom, every joy a curse, all pleasure satiety, and the sweetest kisses left upon your lips only the unattainable desire for a greater delight.
"Ah! a correspondence," said Maitre Hareng, with a discreet smile.
Eating his cutlet and drinking his tea, he buried his chin in his sky-blue cravat, into which were thrust two diamond pins, held together by a small gold chain; and he smiled a singular smile, in a sugary, ambiguous fashion.
I would have sold all, worked for you with my hands, I would have begged on the highroads for a smile, for a look, to hear you say 'Thanks!'
On one occasion, it was a Sunday, four years later, M. de Renal, as he walked home from church in his mayoral attire, saw at a distance old Sorel, supported by his three sons, watching him with a smile.
That smile cast a destroying ray of light into the Mayor's soul; ever since then he has been thinking that he might have brought about the exchange at less cost to himself.
But he has not got a tutor for his children.''He is quite capable of taking this one from us.''Then you approve of my plan?' said M. de Renal, thanking his wife, with a smile, for the excellent idea that had just occurred to her.'There, that's settled.''Oh, good gracious, my dear, how quickly you make up your mind!''That is because I have a strong character, as the cure has had occasion to see.
While he was repeating these vain words, with an awkward smile which enhanced the air of falsehood and almost of rascality natural to his countenance, the old peasant's active mind was seeking to discover what reason could be inducing so important a personage to take his scapegrace of a son into his establishment.
'Well, my friend,' she said to him after a little, 'are you pleased with my husband?''How should I not be?'Julien answered with a bitter smile; 'he has given me a hundred francs.'
He went out and walked pensively in the garden; presently a bitter smile appeared on his lips.
This natural position made him smile, it suggested to him the position to which he was burning to attain in the moral sphere.
The smile of pleasure faded from his lips; he remembered the rank that he occupied in society, especially in the eyes of a noble and wealthy heiress.
This action stirred the ambitious youth; he would have liked it to be witnessed by all those proud nobles who, at table, when he was at the lower end with the children, used to look at him with so patronising a smile.
'When he is mentioned, is there not a smile on every face?
'You forget my birth,' said M. de Renal, with a faint smile.
That man who took refuge on your roof ...''What I think is that you have neither respect nor affection for me,' shouted M. de Renal with all the bitterness that such a memory aroused, 'and I have not been made a Peer!''I think, my friend,' put in Madame de Renal with a smile, 'that I shall one day be richer than you, that I have been your companion for twelve years, and that on all these counts I ought to have a voice in your councils, especially in this business today.
He felt himself a thorough aristocrat for the moment, he who for long had been so shocked by the disdainful smile and the haughty superiority which he found lurking behind all the compliments that were paid him at M. de Renal's.
'What is your name?' said Julien, with the caressing smile of happy timidity.
Not to smile respectfully at the mere name of the Prefect is reckoned, among the peasants of the Franche-Comte, an imprudence; and imprudence, among the poor, is promptly punished with want of bread.
He fell on his knees: the Bishop bestowed a kind smile upon him as he passed through the room.
The sharper wits supposed M. de La Mole to have become a Minister, and allowed themselves that evening to smile at the imperious airs which M. l'abbe de Frilair assumed in society.
'It is strange,' said the abbe with a bitter smile, 'that, poor as you are, and after a year of Seminary, you still retain these virtuous indignations.
'I thought,' the young man began with a servile smile.
Look, look at that gracious smile as soon as she steps into the middle in that country dance.
He looked at her, with a smile at the obstacle.
As for Mathilde, she had just become vividly aware that she meant nothing to this young man; her smile was intended to cover her embarrassment, and proved successful.
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